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African Languages

Language Resources Online

  • LEXILOGOS: An incredible collection of about 40 countries in Africa and their languages. It has dictionaries and a translation / phonetic writing tool. Click the country you're interested in, then scroll down to the Resource section to see the languages it covers.
    • Check out their multilingual keyboard feature which covers the following African Languages:
      • Amharic (Ge'ez and Latin)
      • Berber
      • Coptic
      • Creole
      • Egyptian (Hieroglyphs and Latin)
      • Ewe
      • Fon (Fɔ̀ngbè)
      • Fulani
      • Hausa (and Hausa Arabic)
      • Lingala
      • Somali Osmanya
      • Swahili (Arabic)
      • Tigrinya
      • Tuareg
      • Wolof
      • Yoruba
  • African Languages: This website contains information about African Languages, and other African Language related resources. Currently mostly only the South African languages are covered, as well as Kiswahili and Cilubà.
    • This has a great Swahili dictionary that outlines noun classes, translations and related terms.

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